It's fun to be flippant amongst ourselves, where our sense of sarcasm is precisely tuned.
But this screed isn't the message we should send to the outside world, to a person wondering what's up with the OpenStreetMap community. Surveys can be annoying. Maybe we want to have a protocol for them, instead of implicitly allowing them as we currently do. Let's figure that out instead of joking about ruining some PhD candidate's research. On Mon, Mar 2, 2015 at 7:02 PM, Cristian Consonni <kikkocrist...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > 2015-03-03 0:38 GMT+01:00 Richard Weait <rich...@weait.com>: > > I'm no fan researchers sending messages to OpenStreetMap users via the > > messaging system. I consider them an intrusion. And I've complained > > about them here, before. There is another one making the rounds. > > Seems like there are more of these every time I turn around. > > [...] > > > You could ignore the survey and surveyor. > > Report them to DWG. They are spamming, after all. And we hate spammers. > > Report them to their university research ethics office. > > I earlier suggested that we retag their university as a day care or > > kindergarten. Or public toilet. But that would be wrong. Don't hack > > OpenStreetMap; hack the survey. > > I believe that if you consider this surveys to be "spam" you should > do, IMHO, one of the following: > 1) ignore it > 2) report them as spam to the OSM Foundation > 3) contact the author to say you consider this action to be spam > > I don't see how giving fake answers is going to help, but maybe it is > just me or maybe you were just kidding. > > > To be clear, there is great opportunity for OpenStreetMap to learn > > about itself through research. But that will have to be done in > > coordination with the Foundation and under our terms. > > Out of curiosity, does the OSM Foundation have a policy in this respect? > If no, I think it is a little to much to ask people to respect in > advance a policy with does not exist yet. > The Foundation has all the mean to adopt a clear policy with the > consensus of the community and make it part of some "Terms of Use" of > the OSM messaging system. > > For comparison, the Wikimedia Foundation has a Research portal on Meta > wiki[1] and, for example, they can also provide access to non-public > data (e.g. server logs) for research purposes but there are > requirements[2] as for example the pubblication of results with an > Open Access license. > > In short, don't wait for people to come up with a solution. propose a > solution! There are examples available so it is not even that > difficult. > > Cristian > [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Index > [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Access_to_non-public_data > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk >
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